Above all else, basketball a game of movement. In his book Ball Don’t Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball, Yago Colàs reminds NBA consumers that the future of basketball might not always be what the game is now and that the game did not always have to be what it is now. The sport, like the ball itself, is fluid.

When Seattle's City Council voted not to spend millions of dollars on an arena without a team to put in it, a shitlord faction of Seattle sports fans directed a torrent of gross gendered ugliness at the women who voted against it. Here are some sanctions that might set things right.